Sold for: $15,210

PROVENANCE
Masters Gallery Ltd., Calgary
Private Collection, Calgary

LITERATURE
Peter White, Sybil Andrews, Glenbow Museum, 1982, reproduced page 61
Stephen Coppel, Linocuts of the Machine Age, 1995, reproduced page 120, catalogue #SA 50

EXHIBITED
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Sybil Andrews, 1982, same image, catalogue #47

During her formative years in England, Sybil Andrews was a part of the modernist Grosvenor School of printmakers. These artists were influenced by the radical movements of Cubism and Futurism, as well as by the social realities of life between the two world wars. Change was sweeping through society, and there arose a greater awareness of and respect for working people and industry. Hauling is an outstanding example of how this awareness manifested in Andrews’s work. In 1947 Andrews moved to Canada, settling in Campbell River on Vancouver Island, where she observed massive trucks such as this involved in the logging industry. By depicting the truck on an incline, Andrews increased the sense of the weight of the mighty logs and the power of the machine needed to transport them. The minimal background places all the focus on the truck. Andrews’s mastery of the linocut medium is apparent in her expert treatment of volume, the impression of movement and her fine attention to detail, particularly in the patterning of tire treads, the truck’s grill and the tree rings.

This is a fine impression with strong colours on thick oriental paper.

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